Foldable adjustable feed-bag.



A. BRZOSKA.

FOLDABLE ADJUSTABLE FEED BAG.

APPLICATION FILED JAN. 4, 1916- Patented May 2,1916.

gnuenloz THE COLUMBIA PLANOGRAPH cO.. WASHINGTON. o. c

ANTONI BRZOSKA, F WOODLAWN, PENNSYLVANIA.

FOLDABLE ADJL'ETLBLE FEED-BAG.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented May 2, 1916.

Application filed January 4, 1916. Serial No. 70,180.

1 '0 all whom it may concern:

Be 11; known that I, Axrom BRZOSKA, a

subject of the Emperor of Austria-Hungary,

residing at lVoodlawn, in the county of Beaver and State ofPennsylvania, have invented certain new and useful Improvements inFoldable Adjustable Feed-Bags, of which the following is aspecification.

This invention relates to certain new and useful improvements infoldable adjustable feed bag.

The primary object of this invention is the provision of a feed bagcompactly foldable when not in use, but adapted to automatically openupon being released, the bag having a resiliently mounted bottomadjustable during the movements of the animals head for changing theholding capacity of the bag.

A further object of the device is the provision of a bellows form offeed bag having an automatic contracting means and extensible under theactuation of the nose of the animal with which the bag is employed, therim of the bag being normally open but adapted for folding when desired.

A still further object of the device is to provide a foldable feed bagthat is easy and inexpensive to manufacture and which is adjustable insize when operatively arranged upon the nose of an animal being fedtherefrom.

With these general objects in view and others that will appear as thenature of the invention is better understood, the same consists in thenovel combination and arrangement of parts hereinafter more fullydescribed, illustrated in the accompanying drawings, and pointed out inthe appended claims.

In the drawings forming a part of this application and in whichlike-designating characters refer to corresponding parts throughout theseveral views :Figure 1 is a side elevation of the device in its openposition. Fig. 2 is a similar view of a diametrically opposite sidethereof. Fig. 3 is a top plan view of the device, partially broken away,and Fig. 1 is a view similar to Fig. 1 but with the feed bag in itsfolded inoperative position.

It is to be understood that the present form of feed bag may be employedfor feeding such animals as horses and mules, being arranged forsuspension from the head of the animal in substantially the usual manneremployed with such manner of devices. A foldable circular rim or mouthring 10 1s provided for the bag, being made in two semicircular partshinged together by spring hlnges 11, which hinges normally maintain thering in its open-circular position. The

feed bag proper consists of a sack 12 formed of flexible materialarranged in bellows for mation whereby the same may be extended orfolded as found desirable, one end of the sack being secured as at 13 tothe ring 10 and extending therethrough and provided with a disk-shapedbottom 14-. secured within its opposite end.

Pairs of hangers or brackets 15 are carried at opposite points upon thering 10 and opposite the point of attachment of the sack 12, each hingedsection of the said ring carrying two of the said brackets and adaptedto support a miniature form of shade roller 16, being of the usualspring-winding or retracting form. The said rollers 16 and brackets 15are of substantially the usual form employed with window shades, thesame being so provided of short length for accommodating the samesubstantially to the diameter of the ring 10, the said rollers 16 havingtwo cords 17 wound thereon and secured at their free ends to the sackbottom 14 and running through loops 18 carried by the sack 12.

Supporting ropes 19 are arranged in the form of bails having their innerends anchored as at 20 to the brackets 15 and passing through staples 21at the opposite sides of the ring 10 having tie ropes 22 attachedthereto and adapted to be secured over the head of the animal formaintaining the feed bag in operative position for feeding the animaltherefrom.

It will be understood that the rollers 16 being of the shade rollerform, the cords 19 are normally held wound thereon and with the sack 12retracted or folded as best illustrated in Figs. 1 and 2 of thedrawings. The ring 10 being normally held open by its hinges 11, readilyaccommodates the nose of the animal when the feed bag is attached to theanimals head by the ropes 22 so that the feed within the sack 12 may bereadily eaten by the animal, the downward thrust of the animals nosedepressing the sack bottom 14, and slightly extending the sack, whilethe aforementioned rollers 16 retain the animals mouth in contact withthe feed. The sack 12 when emptied is normally held retracted or foldedas shown in Fig. 1 of the drawings and the sections of the ring 10 maybe folded together against the action of the spring hinges 11 forarranging the device in its folded relation as illustrated in Fig. 4: ofthe drawings and in which position the bag may be retained by means ofthe ropes 19 and 22. Upon again releasing the said ropes, the springhinges 11 return the device to its operative open position.

While the form of the invention herein shown and described is what isbelieved to be the preferred embodiment thereof, it is nevertheless tobe understood that minor changes may be made therein without departingfrom the spirit and scope of the in vention as claimed.

lVhat I claim as new is 1. A feed bag comprising a normally opensectional mouth ring, spring hinges connecting the sections of the saidring, op positely arranged brackets upon each section of the said ring,a resiliently-wound roller carried by each pair of brackets, a sacksecured at one end to the said ring and extending between the saidrollers a rigid bottom of disk form carried by said sack, cords carriedby the said rollers and having their ends operatively attached to thesaid bottom whereby the sack is normally retracted, supporting bailropes attached to the said brackets and mounting ropes sef cured to thesaid bail ropes.

2. A feed bag comprising a mouth ring formed of'two sections, springhinged connections between the saidsections, a flexible sack extendingthrough the said ring and attached to one side thereof, oppositelyarranged brackets attached to each section of the said ring at theopposite side of the latter, spring rewinding rollers operativelymounted in the said brackets at opposite his ANTONI BRZOSKA.

mark l/Vitnesses JAs. E. TANNER, J. B; BROWN.

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